Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:27:46 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | IEEE 1394 "Firewire" |
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Hello!
Has anybody written a driver for the Western Digital (or similar) PCI / Firewire adapter?
If not, I'm going to have to write one. If it doesn't exist yet, should the device be a block device or a character device? There are some new very-fast disks that now use Firewire so this would seem to imply that the most "logically-correct" interface would be a block device. However, it's also used for cameras, scanners, printers, etc. Maybe there should be a 'firewire core' with some generic devices built around it.
Info appreciated.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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